Information processing apparatus and program
AssigneeKonica Minolta, Inc.
InventorHideaki Shimizu
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Abstract
An information processing apparatus includes a central processing unit (CPU) that: transmits and receives a message via a network; manages the message received; discriminates reply necessity to the message being managed; discriminates a message type according to a content of the message discriminated as a message that requires a reply; and calculates an estimated time required by a recipient of the message to reply to the message according to the message type discriminated. The information processing apparatus further includes a user interface that displays the estimated time before displaying the message.
Claims21
An information processing apparatus comprising:
- a central processing unit (CPU) that:
- transmits and receives a message via a network;
- manages the message received;
- discriminates reply necessity to the message being managed;
- discriminates a message type according to a content of the message discriminated as a message that requires a reply;
- and
- calculates an estimated time required by a recipient of the message to reply to the message according to the message type discriminated;
- and
- a user interface that displays the estimated time before displaying the message.
A non-transitory recording medium storing a computer readable program causing a computer to execute:
- discriminating reply necessity to a message received by a central processing unit (CPU) that transmits and receives the message via a network;
- discriminating a message type according to a content of the message discriminated as a message that requires a reply;
- calculating an estimated time required by a recipient of the message to reply according to the discriminated message type;
- and
- displaying the estimated time on a user interface before displaying the message.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.